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Sunday Vegetable Curry
4 c lentils
4 c yellow split peas
4 c green split peas
1 large onion chopped
1 bunch of leeks sliced thin
4 bell peppers chopped
20 unpeeled medium potatoes quartered lengthwise and cut into 1/4" slices.
1 red cabbage chopped small
1 bunch celery chopped into 1/4" wide slices
2 bunches watercress chopped
1 bunch broccoli chopped
7 large carrots grated
3 pounds spinach chopped
juice of 3 lemons
Powder Spices
1/2 tbsp cardamon
2 tbsps cayenne
1 tbsp cinnamon
1/2 tbsp cloves
2 very heaping tbsps coriander
1 very heaping tbsp cumin
1 tbsp fennel
3 tbsps garlic
1 tbsp ginger
2 tbsps onion
1/2 tbsp black pepper
1 heaping tbsp turmeric
Seed Spices
1/2 tsp cumin
1/4 tsp fennel
1/2 tsp fenugreek
1/2 tsp black mustard
10" stick cinnamon, broken up
Use 2 seperate pots, a skillet, and another 5 gallon main pot. In one pot cook lentils in a minimum of water till just soft, about 45 minutes. Set aside without draining. In another pot cook the yellow and green split peas till just soft, about 45 minutes. Set aside without draining. In the 5 gallon pot heat 1/4" of oil. Add the seed spices and cinnamon sticks. When the seeds pop, add the onion and the leeks. Mix the powder spices separately in hot water, making a thin gravy. When the onions turn clear, add the peppers, the potatoes, and the cabbage. Add the spice gravy with 2 cups hot water. Add the celery, watercress, 1/4 of the carrots, and the broccoli. Mix the vegetables from top to bottom, then add the spinach, if it will all fit. Sprinkle 6 tbsps of salt over the top. In a large skillet, cover the bottom with oil. Heat and add the carrots and any remaining spinach, with 1 tbsp of salt. Simmer till just done. Add to main pot. 50 minutes from the starting point, mix in the lentils, the split peas, and the lemon juice. Finished. 5 gallons, and rice, serves about 60, with plenty of leftovers.
“Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs,
When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs And sweeten'd by all that is sweetest in life Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten in strife! But if, out of humour, and hungry, alone A man should sit down to dinner, each one Of the dishes which the cook chooses to spoil With a horrible mixture of garlic and oil, The chances are ten against one, I must own,
He gets up as ill-tempered as when he sat down.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1831-1891), ‘Lucile’ (1860)
In the last three centuries, 90% of all people living in the Western world have switched from tea to coffee.
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